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Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges

Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges. Zoltan Varga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, Monika Bader, Tony Burner 28.09.2017. Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges. Formative assessment Portfolios vs. digital portfolios

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Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges

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  1. Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges Zoltan Varga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, Monika Bader, Tony Burner 28.09.2017

  2. Formative assessment through digital portfolios: benefits and challenges • Formative assessment • Portfolios vs. digital portfolios • Our project as an example • OneNote for Classroom as a tool • Benefits and challenges

  3. What is formative assessment? • "theprocessofseeking and interpretingevidence for use by learners and theirteachers, to identifywherethelearnersare in theirlearning, wheretheyneed to go and how best to getthere" (Assessment Reform Group 2002, p.2) • Key idea: • Evidenceaboutlearning is collected, interpreted and used to adjustteaching and learning to bettermeet student needs.

  4. Unpacking formative assessment(Wiliam 2011)

  5. Unpacking formative assessment (Wiliam 2017) Using evidence of achievement to adapt what happens in classrooms to meet learner needs

  6. Portfolios A PORTFOLIO “... provides a complex and comprehensive view of student performance in context. It is a portfolio when the student is a participant in, rather than the object of assessment. Above all, a portfolio is a portfolio when it provides a forum that encourages students to develop the abilities to become independent, self-directed learners” (Paulson, Paulson and Meyers, 1991, p. 63). • Portfolio as a process not only as a product • Focus on Process/Learning Portfolio • Reflection (metacognition) as a key aspect (Zubizarreta 2009)

  7. Portfolios vs. Digital portfolios • Traditional Portfolio Processes include: • Collecting • Selecting • Reflecting • Projecting • Celebrating • Adding Technology allows enhancement through: • Archiving • Linking/Thinking • Storytelling • Collaborating • Publishing (Based on Barrett 2005)

  8. Project aim • Improve the quality of our courses by integrating formative assessment practices through digital portfolios • Pedagogical tool → learning portfolios • Digital tool → OneNote for Classroom

  9. The Contextofourproject • English 1, Grunnskolelærerutdanning 5-10 • 2 courses at HVL (15 sp. each): • a Language course • 3 obligatory assignments • final exam: portfolio assessment • a Literature/culture course • 3 obligatory assignments • final exam: 6-hours written exam • 1 course at HSN (30 sp.); combined language and literature/culture modules • 6 obligatory assignments • final exam: portfolio (40%) + oral exam (60%)

  10. Formative assessment through digital portfolios

  11. OneNote – Class Notebook

  12. Student Notebook

  13. Benefits

  14. Challenges

  15. Questions Formative assessment is a two-way street: - How do you motivate students to complete low stakes tasks? - What are students’ expectations regarding higher education courses? Logistical challenges: - How to make time for the full cycle of submission, feedback (peer/teacher), revision and reflection for all obligatory tasks during the course of a busy semester? Technical/digital challenges: - How can higher education teachers get the support they need for digital tools to become benefits rather than challenges?

  16. Sources Assessment Reform Group. (2002). Researched-based principles of assessment for learning to guide classroom practice. Retrieved from http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/assessmentreform-group Barrett, C. H. (2007). Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement: The REFLECT Initiative. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 50. 436-449. Paulson, F. L., Paulson, P. R., and Meyer, C. A. (1991). What Makes a Portfolio?, Educational Leadership, 48 (5), (pp. 60-63). Wiliam, D. (2011). Embedded Formative Assessment. Solution Tree Press. Wiliam, D. (2017). PowerPoint slides retrieved from http://www.dylanwiliam.org/Dylan_Wiliams_website/Presentations.html Zubizarrate, J. (2009). The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning. Jossey-Bass.

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